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But the notion that small community banks are somehow simon-pure, in contrast to the risk-happy banks of the East and West Coasts, is ludicrous on its face.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
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His followers, many of whom were lower-middle class pious Muslims disenfranchised by Turkey’s staunch secularist power circles at the time, made up a movement called Hizmet.Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
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As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, leaving him distrustful of even his pious wife Najmeh and teenage daughters Sana and Rezvan.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
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These are not virtues in a moralistic sense but, rather, habits of excellence inspired by definitions from ancient philosophy.Sarah Elk, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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The shadowy promise of deep melodrama paired with that high-contrast visual melancholy that’s ideal for the moralistic extremes of the 1940s is timelessly alluring.Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 July 2024
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Trolls claim to be puncturing pieties, saving the sanctimonious from themselves.Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
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Fiennes is backed by a stellar supporting cast that, in addition to Tucci's firebrand Bellini, included John Lithgow as a sanctimonious curate and Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Benitez, intriguing and comforting in his calm stillness.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
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Lists are no substitute for criticism, but those who take them as inimical to criticism are pharisaical.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
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David and Samuel explore the U.S. energy sector and evaluate what the future holds in an ESG landscape that has done its very best to bring economic incoherence to its pharisaical agenda.Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 Jan. 2022
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The thumb has been placed on the scales to promote the agenda of the person who owns this website under the intensely hypocritical guise of free speech.Jason Parham, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
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The result is an American policy that is seen by much of the world as doubly hypocritical.Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024
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The 31-year-old sherry bomb explodes in torrents of coconut and pineapple fruit before an unctuous, lingering finish of tobacco smoke.Brad Japhe, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Needs a few years to better harmonize into a more unctuous delight.Tom Mullen, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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Most of the work is in surface upgrades to flooring finishes, kitchenettes and parking transitions and in the mechanical work and changing out the lobby and reception area.Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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These generally have a high talc content (talcum powder enhances the mechanical properties of plastics and acts as a reinforcing agent when added to polymers).Jason Barlow, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024
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The term, which arguably won Governor Tim Walz the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket, was a stroke of folksy, linguistic genius: finally, a way to dismissively describe Donald Trump and his cohort without dipping into a self-righteous tone that could turn off wary swing voters.Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024
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Meanwhile, everyone is running around talking about governance in such self-righteous ways, but missing the point.Eli Amdur, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Simon-pure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simon-pure. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.
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